In 2009, I became extremely concerned with the concept of Unique Identity for various reasons. Connected with many like minded highly educated people who were all concerned.
On 18th May 2010, I started this Blog to capture anything and everything I came across on the topic. This blog with its million hits is a testament to my concerns about loss of privacy and fear of the ID being misused and possible Criminal activities it could lead to.
In 2017 the Supreme Court of India gave its verdict after one of the longest hearings on any issue. I did my bit and appealed to the Supreme Court Judges too through an On Line Petition.
In 2019 the Aadhaar Legislation has been revised and passed by the two houses of the Parliament of India making it Legal. I am no Legal Eagle so my Opinion carries no weight except with people opposed to the very concept.
In 2019, this Blog now just captures on a Daily Basis list of Articles Published on anything to do with Aadhaar as obtained from Daily Google Searches and nothing more. Cannot burn the midnight candle any longer.
"In Matters of Conscience, the Law of Majority has no place"- Mahatma Gandhi
Ram Krishnaswamy
Sydney, Australia.

Aadhaar

The UIDAI has taken two successive governments in India and the entire world for a ride. It identifies nothing. It is not unique. The entire UID data has never been verified and audited. The UID cannot be used for governance, financial databases or anything. It’s use is the biggest threat to national security since independence. – Anupam Saraph 2018

When I opposed Aadhaar in 2010 , I was called a BJP stooge. In 2016 I am still opposing Aadhaar for the same reasons and I am told I am a Congress die hard. No one wants to see why I oppose Aadhaar as it is too difficult. Plus Aadhaar is FREE so why not get one ? Ram Krishnaswamy

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.-Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi

“The invasion of privacy is of no consequence because privacy is not a fundamental right and has no meaning under Article 21. The right to privacy is not a guaranteed under the constitution, because privacy is not a fundamental right.” Article 21 of the Indian constitution refers to the right to life and liberty -Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi

“There is merit in the complaints. You are unwittingly allowing snooping, harassment and commercial exploitation. The information about an individual obtained by the UIDAI while issuing an Aadhaar card shall not be used for any other purpose, save as above, except as may be directed by a court for the purpose of criminal investigation.”-A three judge bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said in an interim order.

Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan describes UID as an inverse of sunshine laws like the Right to Information. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the citizen, the UID does the inverse: it makes the citizen transparent to the state, she says.

Good idea gone bad
I have written earlier that UID/Aadhaar was a poorly designed, unreliable and expensive solution to the really good idea of providing national identification for over a billion Indians. My petition contends that UID in its current form violates the right to privacy of a citizen, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. This is because sensitive biometric and demographic information of citizens are with enrolment agencies, registrars and sub-registrars who have no legal liability for any misuse of this data. This petition has opened up the larger discussion on privacy rights for Indians. The current Article 21 interpretation by the Supreme Court was done decades ago, before the advent of internet and today’s technology and all the new privacy challenges that have arisen as a consequence.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP Rajya Sabha

“What is Aadhaar? There is enormous confusion. That Aadhaar will identify people who are entitled for subsidy. No. Aadhaar doesn’t determine who is eligible and who isn’t,” Jairam Ramesh

But Aadhaar has been mythologised during the previous government by its creators into some technology super force that will transform governance in a miraculous manner. I even read an article recently that compared Aadhaar to some revolution and quoted a 1930s historian, Will Durant.Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP

“I know you will say that it is not mandatory. But, it is compulsorily mandatorily voluntary,” Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Saba April 2017.

August 24, 2017: The nine-judge Constitution Bench rules that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty”and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World; indeed it's the only thing that ever has"

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden

In the Supreme Court, Meenakshi Arora, one of the senior counsel in the case, compared it to living under a general, perpetual, nation-wide criminal warrant.

Had never thought of it that way, but living in the Aadhaar universe is like living in a prison. All of us are treated like criminals with barely any rights or recourse and gatekeepers have absolute power on you and your life.

Announcing the launch of the # BreakAadhaarChainscampaign, culminating with events in multiple cities on 12th Jan. This is the last opportunity to make your voice heard before the Supreme Court hearings start on 17th Jan 2018. In collaboration with @no2uidand@rozi_roti.

UIDAI's security seems to be founded on four time tested pillars of security idiocy

1) Denial

2) Issue fiats and point finger

3) Shoot messenger

4) Bury head in sand.

God Save India

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

13347 - Aadhaar Articles Dated 24th April 2018



findBIOMETRICS
“…the UIDAI insists that the Aadhaar ID program does not require data concerning ethnicity, religion, or caste, ensuring that such factors cannot be used for discriminatory purposes.” ...







Times of India
NEW DELHI: Profiling an Aadhaar user is near impossible even if authentication record is known as information revealed is minimal as compared to a person's ... From the record, it can probably be inferred that the user did the authentication to link bank account to Aadhaar or for e-KYC at the bank.






BBC News
More than a billion Indians now have the biometric-based 12-digit personal identification number called Aadhaar, which means foundation in Hindi. What started as a voluntary programme to tackle benefit fraud has now grown into the world's most ambitious, and controversial, digital identity programme.






Times of India
PUNE/KOLHAPUR/NASHIK: Around 50 candidates in Kolhapur and 20 in Nashik were not allowed to take the MHCET law entrance examination on Sunday for failure to produce their Aadhaar cards as photo-identity proof. In Pune, another 15-20 candidates were similarly not allowed into the exam hall ...




NDTV
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), the online ticket booking arm of Indian Railways accounts, can be linked to the Aadhaar card number, the 12-digit unique identification number issued by UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) to book more tickets. According to IRCTC ...






Financial Express
Aadhaar Bank Account Linking update: It is now compulsory for customers to link the national biometric ID Aadhaar to bank accounts, according to the updated 'Know Your Customer (KYC)' guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India. However, there is a condition. The RBI guidelines say linking a ...






Times of India
“During interrogation, one of the arrested, identified as Vijay Nurey, said that he got the Aadhaar card made from Maanjri town of Alwar district after paying Rs 200 to the owner of the emitra centre,” said a senior officer. IB had information about Bangladeshis staying in the area for a long time. “They came ...






Times of India
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which is the online ticket booking section of the Indian Railways, can also be linked to your Aadhaar. Just like your phone number and bank account, your IRCTC account can also be linked to the Aadhaar number, the 12-digit unique ...




NDTV
"It is humbly submitted that due to the anomaly the linking of Aadhaar and PAN is not being accepted/automatically rendered unsuccessful by the Department's systems in cases of those third gender individuals whose respective gender as mentioned in the Aadhaar and PAN are different," Ms Prasad ...






Economic Times
BENGALURU: Transactions through the Aadhaar-enabled payment system (AePS) more than doubled to 13.7 million in March from 6 million in April last year, according to data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). AePS, which allows customers to carry out transactions ...




Hindustan Times
It has become impossible to have an intelligent discussion with the government on Aadhaar. The charge sheet against Aadhaar is endless. The rule of law appears to not apply: after the Supreme Court issued interim orders in 2015 restraining the use of Aadhaar to a handful of schemes, these orders ...




Business Standard
On being questioned, they admitted they were from Uttar Pradesh and a group of nine candidates with fake Aadhaar cards had applied online for the recruitment rally,the release said. Military Intelligence personnel and police were immediately informed. The candidates said they paid Rs three lakh each ...


Forged Aadhaar - The Telegraph India




Business Standard
"It is humbly submitted that due to the anomaly the linking of Aadhaar and PAN is not being accepted/automatically rendered unsuccessful by the Department's systems in cases of those third gender individuals whose respective gender as mentioned in the Aadhaar and PAN are different," Prasad had ...






Daily News & Analysis
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to consider correcting the anomaly which has surfaced in linking of PAN with Aadhaar number with regard to transgenders. The Centre told the apex court that it was alive of the situation and was taking necessary steps to correct the anomaly. "We are ...




Afternoon Voice
MRCC President Sanjay Nirupam followed up on his exposé on how ration card holders were being forced to link their cards with their Aadhaar cards despite the Supreme Court order clearly saying that this is not required. Not just that, Nirupam also showed, in several cases, those who had not linked ...






Dark Reading
While India's Aadhaar does not record income and other personal information, the goal of My Number is to "ascertain people's income more accurately, leaving no room for wrongdoing such as tax evasion and illicit receipt of social benefits." Whether medical information will be tied to My Number IDs is, ...






Economic Times
Subscriber's mobile number should be linked to Aadhaar. Account opening. The customer can log in to ... Once initial details are submitted, the Aadhaar e-verification process begins. On entering the Aadhaar number, a verification OTP is sent to the mobile number. Once OTP is entered, the account is ...






India.com
New Delhi: April 23: Nearly 50 law aspirants in Kohlapur and 20 in Nashik were not allowed to write MHCET law entrance examination held on Sunday as the students failed to provide their Aadhaar card as a photo identity proof. A similar incident also happened in Pune where about 15 candidates were ...






Mathrubhumi English
Palakkad: In order to ease the difficulties in Aadhaar enrolment, Aadhaar enrolment-cum-updation centres has been opened at main post office in Olavakkod here on Monday. People can apply for aadhaar and correct mistakes in aadhaar card through this centre. This centre will also have the facility to ...






Entrackr
The company claims to have over 300 million customers. In October last year, the RBI had directed prepaid payments instrument (PPIs) or digital wallets to complete full KYC of their users. Wallet users need to submit Aadhaar, permanent account number, driving licence or any other valid government ID.



Daily Pioneer
Dehradun police have arrested a Bangladeshi national identified as Alok Mukherjee who was allegedly living illegally in Sahaspur area on Sunday. Despite expiry of his visa, he had continued to live in Dehradun. According to the police, he was also found to have a forged Aadhaar card and other ...






Livemint
I had an Aadhaar card before that. From March 2017, I started living in India but go to the US at least once a year for 1-2 months. I have NRO and NRE (non-resident external) accounts. What should be my tax residency status? Can I still use my Aadhaar card? If I get income during my stay in the US, will I ...






Times of India
Since there is no clarity on the use of Aadhaar for indexing digital health data of patients, bringing the draft document of this act is premature, paediatrician Jayant Navarange, chairman of ... Only Aadhaar issued to more than 90% population can be used as secondary index in electronic health records.